Free Game of the Day: Aether

The Scoop: Aether is a light and breezy puzzle platformer from Super Meat Boy creator Edmund McMillen and Closure developer Tyler Glaiel. Gamers click their mouse to flick their tongue onto clouds, then use WASD to swing from cloud to cloud, escaping their planet's atmosphere and on into the stars.

There are four planets to explore, each with their own unique puzzle to solve. Dreamlike visuals and a vaguely melancholic piano soundtrack lend weight to the light gameplay.

Both developers have gone on to greater game design heights, but Aether shows that before they were making smash-hit downloadable games both members of this duo were already producing excellent works of video game art.

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